I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
BOBBY JONESIf I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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